Thereafter, the great Spanish still-life paintings began to come on the international market.

The show of new landscape and still-life paintings at Knoedler is more problematic.

Here she displayed her own work and included some of her mother's floral still-life paintings.

Dutch still-life paintings of the 17th century, with their allegorical references to growth and decay, provide the obvious models for these works.

Mr. McGarrell's three expansive still-life paintings are a feast for the eyes.

His new landscape and still-life paintings at Knoedler & Company are less so.

In addition to these 13 still-life paintings, she is showing three family scenes based on photographs; the accessories are what really capture the attention.

For a couple of reasons, the series of twelve still-life paintings by Albert Eckhout are unique.

First, they show Brazil's abundant crops and second, these are the only known still-life paintings from the seventeenth century showing an overcast sky in the background.

If art could speak for its owners, that is what 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings might say.